On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

Virtual threads are being proposed for Java, in an effort to dramatically reduce the effort required to write, maintain, and observe high-throughput concurrent applications. A draft JDK Enhancement ...

Are there any circumstances under which Windows can, without any intent on a user's or admin's part, remove the page file (i.e. set the virtual memory dialog to "No paging file")? Backstory: a little ...

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Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

Apple is adding virtual memory swap to iPadOS 16, allowing apps on the recent iPad Pro and iPad Air models to use free and available storage as extra memory for demanding workloads. With iPadOS 15, ...

I think the rule of thumb is to set it 2x the amount of physical RAM. But since you already have 1 gig of physical RAM, so I doubt the page file makes much difference. Whatever you set it at, make the ...

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Virtual threads introduce an abstraction layer between operating-system processes and application-level concurrency. Said differently, virtual threads can be used to schedule tasks that the Java ...

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